Lord Byron Quotes
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you have children love is always there in the best form.
-
People don't usually compliment your character.
-
Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.
-
You know you're getting fat when you step on the dog's tail and he dies.
-
True friends will pick you up when you fall. The bad friends will have been the one who made you fall in the first place.
-
Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.
-
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
-
When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate.
-
Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
-
If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.
-
It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.
-
I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.
-
Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.
-
To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this: the inability to confront that which is.
-
The sudden death of a partner while expecting a child is so universally understood as awful that I don't think anyone with any other weight to carry is going to get to same kind of sympathy - except perhaps people who lose a child.
-
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain.
